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by blueyes 1y ago
Thank you for saying this. I feel like your car hack comes down on the effort side of the equation (and I admire the hack!), and I also want to say that I respect what you're saying about memory and motivation. I'm struggling with
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by blueyes 1y ago
B.J. Fogg makes this point in his book Tiny Habits. And his point *is* that you can form a habit in much less than 21 days, let alone 66. This whole question revolves around the effort/reward ratio of a behavior. When people talk about
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by blueyes 1y ago
One of the main advantages Anthropic currently has over Google is the tooling that comes with Claude Code. It may not generate better code, and it has a lower complexity ceiling, but it can automatically find and search files, and figure ou
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by blueyes 1y ago
A better way to think of it is: you need to live in a host state that may be hostile to you (refugees fleeing conflict or natural catastrophe). You need to work and can do it remotely. A network state might possibly facilitate your work and
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by blueyes 1y ago
We're in a Cold War with hot proxies. The original Cold War was also like that. Now, China, Iran and North Korea are backing Russia without engaging in direct confrontation in Ukraine; the EU, NATO, and maybe still the US are backing U
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by blueyes 1y ago
personal theory: burnout is basically when you're expending more energy than than you're able to recover during rest -- over chronic timelines. that is, i think getting physical health right addresses many causes of burnout. getti
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by blueyes 1y ago
more along these lines: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back ultimately, maintaining focus is tied to overall physical energy (because suppressing distractions consumes neurological energy), and th
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by blueyes 1y ago
Thank you for saying that. I learned something.
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by blueyes 1y ago
very true. this is just about controllable inputs tho.
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by blueyes 2y ago
in a sense, yes, because distraction and "success" are just different types of work. you're burning neurons either way. the important thing is to latch onto the the independent variables, the knobs you can turn.
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by blueyes 2y ago
BJ Fogg's book Tiny Habits is great, particularly about the important of motivation vs ability in starting new routines. His main point is that ability relative to the task is much more important than motivation, because motivation is
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by blueyes 2y ago
This is true. Focus = Energy - Distraction and Success = Focus x Time The way you gain stamina is by doing things to increase your energy and decrease distraction. I wrote and talked about this here, fwiw. https://vonnik.substack
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by blueyes 2y ago
Sincere question - why doesn't RL-based fine-tuning on top of LLMs solve this or at least push accuracy above a minimum acceptable threshhold in many use cases? OAI has a team doing this for enterprise clients. Several startups rolling
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by blueyes 2y ago
Some authors of this piece are deeply involved themselves in building robots and other hardware technology. They should be taken seriously. The US is moving into a trade war, however unwise, with the country that supplies components for eve
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by blueyes 2y ago
Please keep in mind that Dan Hendrycks helped write the disastrous AI quashing bill SB 1047, which Newsom vetoed last year. If these people get their way, the US has no competitive AI strategy at all. He has moved on to pretending he's
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by blueyes 2y ago
Gary would know.
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by blueyes 2y ago
This book was truly excellent. Shows the precursor network triggering similar benefits and harms to its successors. Also a great narrative that recalibrated my sense of how significant technology develops. It took a long time, with many det
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by blueyes 2y ago
The thing is we can't wholly give up our devices and apps, because so many peoples' professional and social lives depend on them. So we have to manage it. It's more like a food addiction than alcohol, since alcohol, you can l
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by blueyes 2y ago
I disagree with many of the current cuts, but other administrations did the work that got us the plane crashes. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...
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by blueyes 2y ago
Equally important: the cats died days later. Here's a good map of the bird flu breakouts. https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/21/134m-poultry-and-c... Most people are not paying enough attention to th
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by blueyes 2y ago
Cedric Chin has a great series on this and has done a deep dive into Deming: https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/
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by blueyes 2y ago
For me, what this post illustrates most is the cost of information. By making hasty decisions, buyers are trading present time that might be spent shopping and comparing with future time spent struggling with the wrong product. They're
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by blueyes 2y ago
The missing clause in the headline is: AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably ... by people who don't read much poetry.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Robert Lustig has been preaching this for years: https://www.amazon.com/Metabolical-Processed-Nutrition-Moder... A good rule of thumb if you care about avoiding UPFs but don't want to overly limit your diet is to only
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by blueyes 2y ago
Sorry, I should have specified he was the last in the Senate.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Montana is MAGA. It went from purple to red during the great self-sorting of COVID. So Tester was in a weak seat which he held onto in the last election because the libertarians split the right. This time, the GOP poured in many millions to
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by blueyes 2y ago
In 1986-87, when Family Ties was at its peak, it had a rating of 32.7, which means almost a third of all US households watched the show every week. That probably amounted to 60m+ people tuning in, which is close to Super Bowl numbers ... ev
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by blueyes 2y ago
The US Congress lost its last farmer-representative when Jon Tester (D-MT) lost this month to Tim Sheehy, a Republican who parachuted in from Minnesota.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Fun fact: Justine Bateman of Family Ties, once the most famous TV actress in the world, holds a degree in computer science from UCLA.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Two people I know, one friend and one family member, landed jobs this year in a tough market due to the reputation they had built for themselves. The friend is a programmer. He used to work in CGI, gained a reputation in animated film, and

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